Some of the most transformative ideas in health care are the least visible. I worked with our state’s nonprofit HMOs to spread the word about the most innovative things they’re doing to bring wellbeing with reach for everyone.

As a progressive young mom in a conservative pocket of rural Pennsylvania, Emily has no business running for state senate — especially not against an experienced, well funded conservative opponent. But she cares about her community too much not to run. Through Get Her Elected, I helped Emily’s insurgent campaign find its voice.

A national health I.T. company needed to tell leaders of hospitals and health systems about a new technology for clinical documentation improvement (CDI). My client asked me to create four original concepts for an advertising campaign that spoke to the aspirations of care providers today.

Health reform worth doing takes new approaches to risk. To help physicians and other clinical leaders welcome the possibilities of ACO risk-sharing, an ad agency hired me to write this article for a trade publication.

His company is building a new technological infrastructure for the next generation of affordable housing, and this CEO has some provocative ideas about how Minneapolis should reinvent itself to welcome everyone. Here’s some local commentary we created together to share his ideas.

Clear, powerful communication is an existential necessity for health care organizations. Our state’s association of health plans asked me for help formulating a communications strategy that works in this time of transformative change. To that end, I articulated a simple set of principles and concepts to keep health plans’ communications focused on human needs.

A visionary consultancy wanted to grow — and to grow, they needed to understand the kind of business they were, and why. I led the whole company in a brand development exercise that resulted in a new understanding of their mission, vision and values. According to the CEO, the workshop ended up “crafting messaging that is so accurate, it is scary (in a good way).”

The trouble with innovation is that it’s unfamiliar — sometimes even scary. To help a digital payment provider introduce the world to the possibilities of transactions enabled by internet-connected objects, I worked with executives to build out a “thought leadership” platform. This article is part of it.